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Project Gorgon lets players get more stabby, enlists them into the clergy

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If you've been missing meaty dev blogs from the Project Gorgon team, then turn that frown upside-down: There's a massive new article up about...

The Daily Grind: What’s the silliest gaming terminology you’ve heard recently?

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Silly gaming terminology is one of my favorite things to mock around here - I'm a huge fan of Eliot's ongoing series on gaming terms,...

Former Marvel Heroes boss David Brevik launches new game, It Lurks Below, into early access

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If you've been finding yourself missing Marvel Heroes - but not all the drama and lies - you might want to mosey on over...
GOrging.

Project Gorgon explains why its appeal isn’t merely nostalgia-related

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Project Gorgon, the scrappy indie MMO that recently went into Steam early access, hosted an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit to talk about...

Enter to win a copy of Wild Terra from Juvty and MOP!

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B2P MMORPG sandbox Wild Terra isn't resting on its laurels: Developer Juvty Worlds patched up for the faux-holiday at the beginning of April, adding "crystal"...
Yeah, there's no version of this that ends well.

Saga of Lucimia defends Star Citizen’s slow progress, Shroud of the Avatar’s transparency

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One of the challenges for indie and crowdfunded MMORPGs is surely the nature of their development: plugging along without much fanfare, with players seeing...

Stardew Valley’s multiplayer mode is about a month away

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Ready to go farm with, adventure alongside, and marry your friends? Stardew Valley's multiplayer mode may be here before you know it. In fact,...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

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The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
Paint with all the colors of the etc.

PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX

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When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
This sort of beating.

Pantheon offers special PAX pledge tier worth $1000, gives five of them away in contest

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Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...

Dogma: Eternal Night goes silent as its community manager resigns

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Dogma: Eternal Night has slipped into the shadows of silence -- and some fans are concerned. As was pointed out on Reddit, the studio hasn't...

The Game Archaeologist: A Tale in the Desert

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Once asked what he thought was the most innovative MMO from the last decade, Dr. Richard Bartle, the creator of MUD, gave a succinct answer: "A...

Guns of Icarus Alliance opens preorders for its PS4 port, promises cross-platform voice chat

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Guns of Icarus is making another bold move - this time to console. Specifically, it's launching its Alliance edition on the PS4, with preorders...

Albion Online finally makes plans to launch on Steam

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Crowdfunded indie PvP sandbox Albion Online technically launched last summer, finding so much initial success that its servers were hammered and it even suffered...
Surprised pikachu dot jpeg.

GDC 2018: The Legends of Aria devs talk closed beta, gankbox PvP, and the MMORPG genre

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One thing I love about GDC compared to other conventions I cover is how many actual developers I get to talk to, especially without...

The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest

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If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...

Chronicles of Elyria demos its character creator in front of a live studio audience

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Who's ready to look super-duper freaky? Chronicles of Elyria, that's who! The in-development indie MMO demonstrated the first iteration of its character creation system in...

Game industry unionization: Game Workers Unite, IGDA, and GDC

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Earlier this week, we covered the emerging Game Workers Unite organization, something many folks in the games industry considered tantamount to unionization, which multiple...
Not happening.

Saga of Lucimia will fight wiki infodumps with sparse patch notes

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You know how when it's patch day in your favorite MMORPG and you're skimming the patch notes trying to figure out what exactly changed,...

Glitch-inspired Children of Ur abandons Google Chrome due to incompatibility

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The uphill struggle to rebuild Glitch has hit a rather significant snag in Children of Ur. "It saddens us to bring you this news, but...

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